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Nasa's latest update for the launch of the Artemis 1 is that it will be launched on Saturday 3 at 2:17 BST with a two hour launch window.  Weather conditions are set to be favourable with just a few showers expected during the launch window.

Space X the independent company that has its own space program yesterday announced that  they are to send two private citizens around the moon next year. They will begin training next year for the journey over a distance that changes with the position of the moon. this can be calculated here . Lift-off will be from Kennedy Space Centre's  historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, the same as used for the Apollo  program. The Dragon 2 space vehicle will be used  after its trip to the International space centre.

A New study suggest that the grooves on the Phobos moon are stress fractures caused by the gravity from Mars and its Moon reports NASA. This indicates that the moon is slowly being pulled apart slowly

One of NASA'S satellites   DSCOVR  " Deep Space Climate Observatory" captured these pictures that have been made into an animation. The images are of the moon passing earth from the other side. full story   Earthsky.org